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We must explain the truth: There is no free lunch.
Grace Napolitano / U.s. Representative
Free Lunch
Lunch
Explain
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I am not criticizing investing in the stock market; I am an investor.
Grace Napolitano / U.s. Representative
Criticize
Investing
Investors
Criticizing
Stock
Stock Market
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There is a need for Social Security reform to ensure its stability, and Congress must act.
Grace Napolitano / U.s. Representative
Congress
Needs
Reform
Social
Social Security
Stability
Ensure
Social Security Reform
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Latinos are disproportionately more likely to be injured on the job than other ethnic groups.
Grace Napolitano / U.s. Representative
Jobs
Ethnic Groups
Groups
Injured
Latino
Disproportionately
Ethnic
Latinos
Likely
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President Bush has consistently used rhetoric, and that is not convincing given his past record.
Grace Napolitano / U.s. Representative
Consistently
Insomnia
Past
President
President Bush
Rhetoric
Bush
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We must take the time to do what needs to be done now, what is right, instead of passing a bad bill.
Grace Napolitano / U.s. Representative
Bills
Done
Needs
Passing
Time Done Must
Bill
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Almost half of all Latinas currently on Social Security rely exclusively on their benefit check in retirement.
Grace Napolitano / U.s. Representative
Benefits
Half
Rely
Retirement
Social Security
Currently
Benefit
Security Retirement Social
Check
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Social Security has been effective for 70 years; prior predictions of its demise have been totally overstated.
Grace Napolitano / U.s. Representative
Demise
Predictions
Social
Social Security
Years
Security Social Social Security
Effective
Overstated
Prior
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Even without reforms, the Social Security fund will be able to meet 100 percent of its obligations until 2042.
Grace Napolitano / U.s. Representative
Able
Fund
Reform
Social
Social Security
Reforms
Obligations
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Our Hispanic community needs to understand how important the Social Security system is for not only its retired citizens, but also its disabled workers.
Grace Napolitano / U.s. Representative
Citizens
Community
Disabled
Hispanic
Important
Retired
Security Systems
Social Security
Workers
Hispanic Community
Social Security System
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If Congress doesn't raise taxes, you cannot get a private investment account without forgoing a portion, possibly all, of your guaranteed benefit check.
Grace Napolitano / U.s. Representative
Aggravation
Benefits
Congress
Investment
Account
Benefit
Check
Guaranteed
Portion
Private Investment
Raise
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We are still waiting for the president to introduce a concrete plan. He has just hinted at what he is thinking about doing, but no one has seen a proposal.
Grace Napolitano / U.s. Representative
Concrete
Proposal
Waiting
Introduce
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A Congressional Budget Office report released as recent as June 2004 says the system will be able to pay full benefits until 2052, and 80 percent after that.
Grace Napolitano / U.s. Representative
Benefits
June
Office
Report
Budget
Congressional
Recent
Released
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Our political leaders must be honest and forthcoming with data that will allow citizens to use facts and figures to judge for themselves what state Social Security is in.
Grace Napolitano / U.s. Representative
Citizens
Data
Figures
Forthcoming
Judging
Leader
Political Leaders
Social Security
Allow
Judge
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The president's claim that Social Security is going broke is misleading at best. The sky is not falling, although there is no doubt that the system needs to be strengthened.
Grace Napolitano / U.s. Representative
Broke
Doubt
Fall
No Doubt
Sky
Social Security
Claim
Falling
Misleading
Strengthened
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To allow all U.S. workers to put part of their earnings into private investment accounts would definitely erode the Social Security system and cause uncertainty for new investors.
Grace Napolitano / U.s. Representative
Accounts
Causes
Erode
Investment
Security Systems
Social Security
Uncertainty
Workers
Allow
Earnings
Private Investment
Social Security System
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Because of my own experience with market fluctuation, I recognize the great risks one takes on investments. This converts the Social Security safety net into a risky proposition many cannot afford to take.
Grace Napolitano / U.s. Representative
Fluctuation
Investment
Risk
Safety
Safety Net
Social Security
Afford
Converts
Net
Proposition
Recognize
Risky
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Because of their low earnings and family obligations, Latinas would not be putting much money into private investment accounts. An average Latina could wind up losing thousands of dollars under this proposal.
Grace Napolitano / U.s. Representative
Accounts
Average
Dollars
Earning
Investment
Latina
Losing
Proposal
Wind
Earnings
Obligations
Private Investment
Thousands
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For people who have for been putting their hard-earned money into the system for years, the president's idea would replace their safety net with a risky gamble with no assurance of a stable return of investment.
Grace Napolitano / U.s. Representative
Assurance
Gamble
Ideas
Investment
People
Return
Safety
Safety Net
Stable
Years
Net
Replace
Risky
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We must level with the people and explain to them that Social Security will first face funding problems in 2042 that can be fixed now with changes that do not undermine and ultimately drain from the entire program.
Grace Napolitano / U.s. Representative
Fixed
Funding
Program
Social Security
Face Problems People
Drain
Explain
Ultimately
Undermine
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Latinas' life expectancies are relatively long. When a current retiree hits 65 and begins receiving her benefit check, she can expect to live another 22 years. That life expectancy is higher than white women or men.
Grace Napolitano / U.s. Representative
Men
Expectancy
Higher
Life Expectancy
Receiving
White
Years
Life Men Women
Begins
Benefit
Check
Current
Life Women Men
Hits
Relatively
White Women
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Because Social Security is specifically designed to boost the retirement income of low earners with a progressive benefit formula, the program has played an enormous and necessary role in keeping Latinas out of poverty.
Grace Napolitano / U.s. Representative
Boost
Enormous
Income
Poverty
Program
Progressive
Retirement
Roles
Security
Social Security
Poverty Security Social
Benefit
Security Retirement Social
Designed
Earner
Formula
Low
Necessary
Retirement Income
Specifically
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We must work to stabilize Social Security. We must not gamble with our nation's social insurance program, one of our most popular and effective federal programs that has remained dependable and stable for the past 70 years.
Grace Napolitano / U.s. Representative
Dependable
Gamble
Gamer
Past
Program
Social Security
Years
Effective
Insurance
Programs
Popular
Remained
Stabilize
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